How can we understand hammonds treatment of sally johnson

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Assignment:

1. Which of these documents argue for enslavers as benevolent paternalists and the institution of slavery as a "positive good"? What are other points of view represented?

2. Given the "class" and "honorable independence" discussion in the Mission Society statement, how would an Episcopalian reply to Hammond's critique of the northern labor system?

3. How can we understand Hammond's treatment of Sally Johnson and her daughter and his refusal to free his and his son's children in the context of his 1858 speech and the Staunton Spectator's editorial?

4. Using the principles asserted in his letter, how would Horace Greeley analyze the southern labor system, as Hammond and the Staunton Spectator described? Why does Greeley suggest that the northern system has only "a strong tendency to Slavery"?

5. Consider the sources above in light of this Abraham Lincoln comment: "although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a perfect thing, we never hear of the man who Wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself."

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